Illinois SR 727: MEMORIAL-JOE I. CONOVER

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SR0727LRB104 21519 MST 36869 r

1SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened 

3to learn of the death of Joe Irvin Conover of Quincy, who 

4passed away on March 22, 2026; and

5 WHEREAS, Joe Conover was born in Quincy to Glenn Argus and 

6Elsie May Bolt Conover on November 7, 1935; he attended 

7elementary schools in Lima and Tioga and graduated from Unity 

8High School in Mendon in 1953, where he had studied piano; he 

9was a piano major at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music 

10before graduating from the University of Illinois with a 

11bachelor's degree in journalism; and

12 WHEREAS, Joe Conover worked briefly at a Montana weekly 

13newspaper and then served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted 

14information specialist from October 1958 to February 1962; he 

15was honorably discharged and worked in Tokyo at the copy desk 

16of the Japan Times from February 1962 through August 1965; he 

17taught conversational English at Kyoritsu Women's University 

18and played guitar in a folk group called The Gallihooters; he 

19returned to the United States in September 1965 by traveling 

20from Japan by ship through the Soviet Union, on the Soviet 

21airline Aeroflot, and the Trans-Siberian Railway, which 

22included spending several days in Moscow before moving through 

23several Scandinavian countries before returning home; and

SR0727- 2 -LRB104 21519 MST 36869 r

1 WHEREAS, Joe Conover was employed in the Herald-Whig 

2newsroom in 1966, where he met his wife, Janet Joann Gates; 

3they were married on May 28, 1967 in the United Methodist 

4Church and moved to Washington, D.C., where he edited radio 

5news copy in the Far East Division of the Voice of America, 

6then a part of the U.S.